Read the section, "pheidippides and the marathon run." according to legend, how did phidippides the forces of athens? what had phidippides done for them

Pheidippides is a Greek soldier who is said to have run from the city of Marathon to Athens in order to deliver the message of the victory of the Greeks over the Persians in the "Battle of Marathon" that occurred in 490 BC.

Pheidippides is believed to have run to Sparta to request for help when the Persians landed in Marathon. He then went back to Marathon. He is believed to have an approximately 240 km or 150 miles in this back and forth trip.

After the events unfolded in Marathon, he ran a distance of approximately 40 km from Marathon to the city of Athens. This run would ultimately be referenced as the benchmark for the current Marathon discipline, which consists of a race of 42.1 km.

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explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.